Chapter 55: Vol2 Ch 20 – Elea’s Problems (2)

“This is difficult to believe.” The Cardinal was walking laps around the room. Kye, Luma, and Carys had just finished explaining the situation to Cardinal Aderyn and High Priest Olivia. “Lady Luma, your word is the most valuable here, and you’re telling me this woman is Goddess Elysia?”

“Correct.”

The Cardinal continued walking laps while the High Priest studied Kye. She held her hand out and asked, “May I examine you?” Kye nodded and Olivia began chanting a spell. “Goddess Elysia, divine creator of our world, I am your humble servant. Before me is a woman claiming to be you. I ask that you grant me your blessing and show us the truth. Divine Appraisal.”

White and silver aether surrounded the High Priest’s body, then moved to surround Kye. After a moment, a status screen appeared showing everyone Kye’s stats, name, age, and titles.

“Kye Akari of Nippon Sekai,” Olivia read. “Born in New Tokyo, Nippon Sekai in Realm 4. Nineteen years and one month old. Birthdate AE100-11986-12-10. Royal Heir of the Atlantis Empire. Daughter of Zen Akari I and Layla Barrett. Two siblings. Several children. Several other familial relations. Affinity with all elements and alignments. Divine Affinity with all elements and alignments. Pure Affinity and Pure Divine Affinity. Hmm...” She noticed a tab that showed Kye’s real name and selected it. “It’s true. Here it is. Elysia the First of the Nexus. Data for birth and age are N/A. Creator of Elysium. There’s very little information on this page, but what is here is very clear.” She paused and looked over at Aderyn, who had stopped pacing and was carefully studying the screen. “Lady Kye is Goddess Elysia.”

The Cardinal was frozen in place. Even Carys was a bit surprised to see the details on the screen. Aisha was impressed with the status, and even Luma was not unfazed.

“Lady Kye, your stats are quite impressive, I must admit,” Olivia said. “Even Lady Luma did not have stats this extraordinary when she was your age. Your STR and other base stats are in the mid 300s, except AGI is 650. Your current maximum mana output is 275B, but your capacity is 9999T+.”

What? I have base stats?

“Actually, my capacity was also like that,” Luma corrected, “but wow, the rest of your stats are way higher than mine were. I lied initially, of course, since I was young and my body was not developed. It was necessary to keep certain details to myself.”

“Indeed,” Kye agreed. She knew all too well what Luma meant. A transmigrator with significant experience and power built up over countless lifetimes could not reveal what they were haphazardly or risk being killed before they could properly defend theirself. “Lady Olivia, the power you used just now...”

“We refer to it as divine light. It is rare and difficult to use and does not always work even when chanted properly.” Olivia exchanged glances with Carys and Aderyn briefly. “We believe divine light chooses whether or not to fulfill any given request.”

Kye averted her eyes. That...

Luma smirked and called Kye out. “What’s wrong, Commander? Did that sound familiar? Hah!”

“Shut up, Luma. It’s not funny.” Suddenly, it didn’t make sense. Kye held her head, recalling a memory she didn’t know she had. “I...” She looked up, her vision somewhat blurry, and saw only Luma sitting there. Not Luma Caliburn, but Luma the Ninety-Ninth.

“What do you think? The people of this world are begging for your help. Will you answer them or leave them to fend for themselves?”

“What?” Kye said. Luma was not looking at her and did not react.

“I know I need to choose.” Kye looked over to find the source of the voice that sounded like her own. “It’s been on my mind for a while.” Sitting next to her was... herself.

Elysia.

“It’s gone pretty far already, but you could still turn it around. If you choose a few champions - or even just one - then it’s not impossible for them to turn things around.”

Above the table, between Luma and Elysia, was a holographic image of a planet with several small lights across its lands.

“Should I not just let it happen?”

Kye was taken aback by what Elysia had just said. “What? You’d dare abandon people!” Neither reacted to Kye. “Is this a memory?”

“There is so much evil in this world. I am unsure if it would be better to let it die to allow the good souls to move on or save it and risk them suffering even more.”

“Save them!” Kye shouted.

“I think you should save them,” Luma said. “The evil in that world can be overcome. It’s not too late.”

“Dammit!” Elysia suddenly jumped up and kicked the table over Luma’s head. “Why can’t I just go do it myself?! I don’t want to let them die, but I don’t want them to suffer even longer if it fails. I could fix it myself if I could just... become mortal.”

“I’m sure you could, but you know we’re not allowed to meddle directly. You need to learn to trust mortals.”

“After seeing so much evil, how can I?” Elysia flung her arm forward, laying her hand on the holographic planet. “I’ve made my choice.” A burst of white aether blocked Kye’s vision of what happened next. When it subsided, she was back in front of Carys and the others, and the table was still standing.

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“Lady Kye? Are you well?” Carys asked. “Should we continue another time?”

Kye looked around. All eyes were on her. “...what?”

“Let’s recess for today,” Olivia suggested. “Lady Kye, your accommodations will be ready soon. If you need to rest in the meantime, you may use my personal-”

“No.” The tone in Kye’s voice left no room to argue. “I’m fine.”

“Princess.” Liliana began to cast healing magic on Kye. Kye sighed but didn’t refuse. After a moment, Liliana whispered something to her and stepped back.

Luma raised an eyebrow. What just happened? You saw a memory, didn’t you?

Kye noticed that Aisha, Luma, and Olivia were watching with concerned faces. “My apologies. Perhaps I do need to rest, but let’s cover at least one of my issues first.” The three nodded, and Kye turned to Cardinal Aderyn and gestured at Aisha. “My vampire friend here was targeted by the church. Specifically, by the young knight Sir Caladbolg. I hold no resentment toward the knight, but I do hold the church as a whole responsible. The church eliminates vampires because they view them as an enemy to-” Before she could finish, the Cardinal materialized a spear and launched a concentrated beam of mana at Aisha. Kye simply held out her hand and blocked the beam, her hand glowing white.

“Don’t you think you’re acting too hastily, Your Eminence?” Carys asked.

“Not at all,” Aderyn replied. “I am simply acting on the wishes of the masses. Had I known this girl is a vampire sooner, I’d have acted sooner.”

“Even so, you saw Lady Kye’s stats. You should know better than to make a haphazard attempt like that.”

“Cardinal Aderyn,” Kye said. The cardinal saw a look in Kye’s eyes that she hadn’t show anyone since before reincarnating into Elysium. Unsure what to do, Aderyn backed down and his spear vanished. “I have a great deal of love for the people of Elysium. I will not tolerate murder.”

“Removing a vampire is not murder.”

She maintained her glare. “It is-”

“Cardinal,” Luma said, her voice much louder and her eyes glaring the same. “If this was a different world, one that Elysia has no hand in creating, you would be dead right now.”

“Those words are treason!”

“And who exactly is going to arrest me? You?” Aderyn started to argue, but Luma didn’t give him a chance to get a word in. “I was once in the same position that you just subjected Lady Aisha to. In that life, my name was Heidi Lumen. A woman I grew to know very well stopped that attack. Would you like to know what happened to the attacker? He vanished without even a trace of blood. It was as though he blinked out of existence in the middle of his attempt to kill me. That woman is sitting across the table from you. I went into that life with nothing. It was a mission. I was to go help Elysia. I survived a difficult childhood in that life. I was ten when that attack happened. I thought I was dead, but nothing happened. My life was saved by Commander Catherine Lancet. She became a big sister to me and I enlisted under her command when I came of age. We died together in that life and met once more as Elysia and Luma. We shared a laugh, and our bond grew stronger.”

“Get to the point, Sword Saint.”

“I will not protect you from her.”

Aderyn pounded the table, his rage on full display. “Traitor!”

“One, she is the creator of this world. Her will is law to the church. Two, I agree with her in that vampires are people, just like you and I. The only real difference is part of their diet. Three, even if none of that mattered, and she was completely in the wrong... I would still side with her. She’s been an older sister figure to me since before the first world was created. I am no traitor. I am the Sword Saint of Elysium. My loyalty both as Luma Caliburn and Luma the Ninety-Ninth is to her. Heed her words. You risk making an enemy of the very namesake of this church. If you make another hostile move toward either her or the diplomat in her party, I will execute you for treason against Elysium.”

It finally sank in for Cardinal Aderyn. Up until Luma’s outburst, he did not believe that Kye was Elysia. Only when Luma defended Kye so earnestly did he truly understand that he was like a rodent before a tiger. There was nothing he could do. Neither High Priest Olivia nor Archbishop Carys offered him any support. Carys already believed in Kye before that meeting, and Olivia was convinced early on. Only Aderyn stubbornly refused to listen until that moment.

“This is the Church of Elysium,” said the archbishop.

“Our goddess’s word is law,” finished the high priest.

Aisha was so out of her element that it was all she could do to remain calm and listen to the other five. Kye gave her a smile to help ease her mind. “It’s okay.”

*****

After a brief recess, the group reconvened and started discussing how to correct the issues Kye saw in the world. Changing everything in a day was not feasible, but covertly removing missions against vampires and other demihumans was possible. Their safety was far from guaranteed, but at least there were no more missions or bounties over their heads.

The main problem that plagued Elea was the monsters. The Slayer Academy was responsible for raising people to take on those monsters and protect humanity. Their workload would have to shift with demihumans no longer being a target. Kye asked why Luma had simply not eliminated the monsters, and she actually had done that at one point. She had once lead an army and completely eradicated them one continent at a time, but the monsters returned only a few years later. Luma was at a loss at how to permanently deal with them, so the solution became to learn to live with the threat, which meant teaching enough people to fight to maintain relative peace. Large cities with enormous walls became the norm, and within one of those cities was where Kye saved Aisha.

After their meeting, Kye rested in Luma’s quarters. She quickly fell asleep and did not wake until the early morning.

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